Some “genius” just solved the US poverty problem through a Powerball winnings formula (6 Photos)

As you may’ve noticed the $1.5 billion Powerball drawing is today and it’s causing quite a stir. Everybody, including ourselves, are dissecting and analyzing every aspect of these winnings and what it all means. Some are even going a bit further and using math to figure out potential bigger implications of this historic jackpot.

Now a meme has been circulating on Facebook which declares that whoever wins the jackpot could actually “solve US poverty” by splitting the $1.5 billion with the rest of the U.S. population. According to math, the meme-creator claimed that, with roughly 300 million people in the country, sharing the money would give every person $4.33 million. Sadly, people often believe what they want to hear.

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This concept sounded so wonderful that this post was shared over one million times on Facebook.

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Thankfully, there are a few diligent fact checkers out there with common sense who did the math. Turns out, if every person in the US received an equal share of the Powerball fortune, then we would all enjoy a grand total of roughly four dollars and some change.

People immediately began correcting the outlandish claim.

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As you all know well, 4 dollars is not quite the same as 4 million dollars? Moral of the story, stop pinning all your or the world’s hopes on one Powerball Jackpot, because in the end it won’t likely solve anything.

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